Zhuang Music When do Zhuang people like singing?

In villages where Zhuang people live in compact communities, unique two-part and three-part folk songs can be seen everywhere. Each part revolves around the theme, sometimes parallel, sometimes cross, sometimes contrast, ups and downs, pleasing to the eye. There are more than 100 kinds of Zhuang folk songs, which are distributed all over the country. Guangxi Zhuang multi-voice folk songs spread in more than 30 counties in six regions of Guangxi, among which Baise, Liuzhou, Hechi and Nanning are the most popular. Zhuang multi-voice folk songs are ideological, popular and mature in artistic form. They are a kind of spiritual civilization created by the Zhuang people in their long-term life practice and should be regarded as a peak in the history of Zhuang folk music. It is the crystallization of the life experience, ideological spirit and artistic wisdom of the Zhuang working people.

Zhuang people like singing. They not only sing at home, but also have a fixed folk song called "Xu Ge" or "Xu Ge". The date of the Song Festival is mainly the third day of the third lunar month, but it is also formed on auspicious days such as the Spring Festival, April 8, China's New Year's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, wedding, full moon and the completion of new houses, and sometimes even on the way to the market. There are two kinds of song markets: daytime song market and evening song market. Japanese song concerts are held in the wild, and the main content is that young people "choose songs". The night market in the village mainly sings production songs, seasonal songs, vegetable songs and historical songs to impart knowledge and skills in production and life.

The social function of the song club is various. But historically, young men and women always choose to sing and get married in public. Every Song Cheng Day, young men and women will wear colorful clothes and come to Song Cheng in groups. They will show their talents, their voices, exchange ideas and find their favorite songs by singing. At the concert, duet is the main activity. Duets are performed in pairs. When a young man and a young woman sing in pairs, their friends help each other nearby and even the singer gives advice nearby. The procedure of duet is very complicated and strict.

Generally speaking, from the first meeting to the initial determination of love relationship, there are several stages of duet: introduction song, first meeting song, big talk song, first question song, CD song, praise song, pursuit song, first love song, friend love song, fixed love song, gift song, farewell song and so on. Each link is relatively independent, interlocking and closely linked. The songs in each class are very long and rich, and excellent singers can sing day and night.